Projects

SUCCEED (Southeastern US Collaborative Center of Excellence for Eliminating Disparities) is a five-year collaboration to address disparities in breast and cervical cancer incidence and mortality between African American women and women of other racial and ethnic groups.  The partnership, headed by the Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research Center, includes the 4CNC, the Emory University Prevention Research Center, the Fulton County Department of Health and Wellness, and the Hollings Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of South Carolina. 

Organizations in High Point, North Carolina are working with the 4CNC and cancer control groups across the state to promote awareness, screening, and timely treatment for colon cancer. The High Point colon cancer study promotes screening by distributing immunochemcal fecal occult blood tests, known as iFOBT or FIT. The tests have been repackaged to make them more user-friendly, especially for older patients. The new FIT kits are being distributed as part of a pilot study at participating High Point health care clinics and at several community screening events.

4CNC Investigators Kurt Ribisl, Cathy Melvin, and Catherine Rohweder are involved in several research studies focused on smoking cessation and tobacco control The team works with Smoke-Free Families National Dissemination Office to engage more than 60 national partners in adopting evidence-based approaches to prevent and treat tobacco use among pregnant and parenting smokers.

As part of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network (CPCRN), the 4CNC is part of a multi-center collaborative effort to fill the gaps in knowledge among community cancer control planners about how to use evidence based approaches (EBAs).  Currently, there is little guidance for planners about how to find effective programs, implement them, and adapt them to fit specific community needs.